Picasso painted 'Guernica' in Paris in two weeks in 1937, just after seeing the newspaper and newsreel accounts of the destruction of the Basque city. It is in black and white, like newsreels, and ...
PICASSO was living in Paris when German bombs rained down on the Basque city of Guernica. Stark black and white photographs plastered over the front pages of L’Humanité and other French ...